Well, I guess if you are going to jump in it might as well be with both feet, right? This is my first attempt at making some bottle stoppers and I had to start off with black palm. What a PITA it was even with stabilizing with CA about 15 times! The finish on the two palm stoppers is BLO & CA with HUT wax. The other two are Bocote and Rosewood with mother of pearl inlays. Fist time for inlaying as well. Lots of fun and learned a lot! The finish on those is just the two step HUT wax.

Who says you can't turn wood on a little Sherline metal lathe? Sorry for the crummy cell phone pics. I will have to get my wife to take some better ones after she sees them on Christmas day.